ducks and drakes

It was as if he were playing ducks and drakes with himself.

The reason this came about Dennis, is because some people were, were playing ducks and drakes.

Well ducks and drakes are just the same.

He will have a very pretty income to make ducks and drakes with, and earned without much trouble.

Not very coherent perhaps, but we're being warned, I think, not to play ducks and drakes with the dead.

It is utter folly to play ducks and drakes with the survival of a country gambling on a breakthrough.

"Can't play ducks and drakes with tradition."

I'll save enough for us two, though I do make 'ducks and drakes of my fortune.'

Ducks and drakes, she thought.

And with that, said A'Lee, he soon began to play ducks and drakes.

"I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes," he said moodily.

"although I must admit that the attractions of Perkin seem to have played ducks and drakes with our safety precautions.

In proof of this he gives the homely illustration of a flat stone caused to make " ducks and drakes."

Until eight weeks after hatching, the time of their first moult, ducks and drakes (females and males) are almost indistinguishable.

Ducks and Drakes (1942)

'We call it Ducks and Drakes,' I said.

Bordenave wants money--well, you'll lend him some, since you can afford to make ducks and drakes of it."

There were sons-in-law that made bad investments, others that played ducks and drakes with the Achun dowries.

In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make.

Trimble, Robert L. "Ducks and Drakes."

Ducks and Drakes (1953, Ward Lock & Co)

Phyllis Tree in Ducks and Drakes, Apollo Theatre (November 1941)

"Oh, I was a rare young devil," Percival obliged, "after I played ducks and drakes at home and sported out over the world.

"But, my dear girl, you needn't make ducks and drakes of your fortune trying to feed and cure and clothe all the poor wretches you see.

Ducks And Drakes (1993, cd/lp)